Thanks again Abbie, I’m 72 & have a 12 1/2 year old dog & together we are doing a lot more walking in the area I live in New Zealand. And I’m taking more notice of the things I see as though I’m talking to a camera. Of course being a young country there is very little history to relate but I’m loving it & so is Bobby.
Another memory lane walk for me Abbie! I grew up in West Pennard and Glastonbury. Used to play in the river with the Weir and the Dippers! I still go back to Glastonbury regularly to see my parents and on every visit climb the Tor as a rite of passage. Thank you for sharing. Stay Wild!
This came up in my suggested videos to watch (I'm fascinated by the legends of Glastonbury and watch some of those videos) and it was a refreshing experience! The majority of my heritage comes from Great Britain so I enjoy learning about where my ancestors may have lived or visited. Thanks so much!
Love that you get excited about sparkling water and the light and just the beautiful things in this world. Like the little history moments you share too. Thanks :)
What a lovely walk, beautiful narration and your constant smiling face! Your philosophy on life fits perfectly with my own. A joy to accompany you. Many thanks. 😊🙏
I stumbled across your channel and was well rewarded by this post. You have a freshness that is endearing and an honesty that shines through. Please continue making these REAL walking videos. You are a diamond in a midden of ***t ...
Nice to see you walking around my home town. Brought back memories of being a kid and walking around the Tor and fields. Sadly these days my health is not up to it. Thanks for sharing you really enjoyable walk. 😎👍
Ordnance Survey maps are fantastic. They show a huge amount of detail without being cluttered and it is possible to plan a walk just using the information on the paper
I’ve been to England six times and traveled a good bit, but my mom’s family came to the US from Draycott long ago and I’ve never been ! It’s nice to walk with you where I will probably never go in person. Thanks !
That a Golden Light in the Winter is gorgeous and below 10 degrees is perfect for walking. In the summer to get that light you need to be up at 0500hrs!! I love winter walking. The Levels are curious and have little bits of magic hidden within but it is all too easy to drive on past. Great video.
I remember visiting Glastonbury in 1974. There were " No hippies " signs on shop doors. We knocked on a caravan door and asked if we could spend the night. We could.
Thanks again, Abbie! Watched this while chugging away on my elliptical, as we wait for Hurricane Isaias which is moving toward us, here on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
Greetings from SE Asia. It is so nice to see the home of my ancestry. I would love to walk many paths there. For now I will just spend some moments with you. Beautiful smile. Beautiful present moment.
This is a joy to watch. I think I did the same route in 1998. Bought Michael Ondadge's The English Patient in Glastonbury, my all time favourite book! Thanks!
What a brilliant, interesting and informative video. Thanks for taking us along. I think I would have started to panic had I realised that I was on the wrong side of the drain with no bridge or other means to cross in sight.
A great day out Abbie, I just love the levels you can walk for miles and miles.. Some of those bridges looked like they were deliberately left overgrown so not to cross . Got to love those landowners... Not ! Atb Dave.....
I live in Wells just along the road from where you were. I also work out on the levels but in the opposite direction from your walk so it was a pleasure to see familiar places from anothers point of view. I have lived here since 2014 and count my self so lucky to live in such beautiful English countryside.
I am so glad I am not the only one who gets slightly disorinentated on the levels! I always end up studying my map every 2 seconds and re-routing by the second half of my walk. However like what happened to you I always end up being rewarded with an animal encounter of some kind that takes my breath away as the levels are so rich snd busy with wildlife. If you hang around until dusk the mummerations are just out of this world at this time of year. Shapwick and Ham wool get so busy with visitors wanting to see them roost so we usually go at dawn to see them take off and when hardly anyone is around, but seeing them gather in groups on the levels first is equally as exciting. I love this part of the world. Thanks for sharing your adventure and if you want to explore one of my local trails with me just shout xx
Hey Abbie another triumphant vid and I see what you mean about the light, extraordinary! I have visited Glastonbury and the surrounding area many times over the years and must say that this post brilliantly captures the feeling of the place. I would thoroughly recommend the Levels to any, less abled, walker as it has all that the countryside has to offer, without the gradients! and the town itself has a great vibe, a must for any old hippie like me. Thanks for the memory Abbie, looking forward to your next journey!
As usual, a great video of your wanderings. It’s a good thing you managed to get out of the fields 😉 I’ve meant to comment before that I love that your intro and out takes , are of the relevant trip in and out, plus a map of the local area, which is great. Not just a standard themed intro. This must add to your editing, but it’s always appreciated.
Love this! You've made such an interesting video from a country walk. The BBC or someone will be snapping you up soon for sure. Great work. You've got a very engaging style, keep it up.
Another fantastic vid Abbie. Do you ever worry about losing a footpath/bridleway when you go through a farm or farmers field? Do the owners ever ask you why your on the land. I would worry about trespassing on their ground back accident. Keep up the good work, your inspiring..
Not really. If I am on a designated public right of way then I have every right to be there. I have only once been challenged and that was on the Two Moors Way, as you'll see in the video when it comes out. To be fair, I did go wrong, but literally by 10metres!!!
At a couple of points in the video i wondered if you'd been drinking! (just kidding of course) ...thoroughly enjoyable watch as always...the fun season is upon us, nothing better than a hike in snow, hope you'll do some of those this winter..have a good christmas Abbie
The wind at St Michaels Tower looks mad , perhaps take a kite next time and get an aerial view with the camera lol . Always fun to watch , keep it up =-)
Is tor a way to shorten Tower? A legend about Jesus tells us - Mary watched HIM, as a child, bullied for being illegitimate. She sent HIM with her Uncle, Joseph of Arimethea. When taken to Britain, HE studied with Druids. Upon their departure, Jesus blessed Britain, making way for an Empire. The Rose of Glastonbury
Stand on the top of Masbury, still less than a thousand feet above sea level and Glastonbury Tor looks really small down below you. I have only ever been to Glastonbury Tor when I have visitors, although there have been a few of those. I live not far away and there were always people on the top even in the depths of the lockdown. Whenever I walk that way there is always something new to see and someone different to talk to. I once talked to a lady near West Pennard about her chickens. The two cocks ruled the roost over the whole flock, quite literally. One was called Lenin and the other Stalin. They had no respect for history because one day Lenin did for Stalin! So when I passed there was only one cock. That was not really a very wild walk, but I bet you met some pretty wild people in the hippy shops in Glastonbury High Street.
Thanks for sharing this one, Abbie. I've been up and down the Tor a number of times but I don't think I've once explored the museum or some of the other nearby sights. I often think of the area as only being suitable for a 'short walk' but I think you've done well with your route, even when faced with obstructions. Do you often encounter footpath problems in Somerset? Do you report them as and when you do?
Good question. Yes. Mostly signing to be honest. And Devon can be the same. And Dorset. Except on the AONB's and National Parks. But I don't report them. Perhaps I should....... They'd have endless messages from me!!!
@@AbbieBarnesWILD I find that Somerset, in particular, has many 'blackspots' surrounding the AONBs. I've reported a number of issues to Somerset County Council over the years but very rarely see an improvement made and mostly receive an automated response: 'the issue has been resolved'. Few councils, sadly, have the funding to maintain the upkeep and repair to our rights of way network. Someone from Cornwall County Council told me they won't act upon a non-SWCP route unless it poses a serious threat to health. By contrast, I've often had good results - and seen resolutions reached quickly - with both North Somerset Council and Bath and North East Somerset. But even they're now experiencing cutbacks. I like to think we have a duty and responsibility to report things, as there's no guarantee that the next person to come along or the one who passed previously, will do it. Some landowners (if only in the minority) clearly don't respect our right for roam. /Rant over. :-)
I think you are spot on. When on the C2C this summer I went over a style and it broke. My knee is still swollen and painful now! So yes, do not want anyone else to have that!! Thanks for highlighting the issue :)
I run group walks around the country throughout the year (see my website for info - although they are not yet online). I do sometimes feature people in videos but I am always cautious of shoving a camera into peoples walks - most like to be outside to get away from tech and people!!
I was thinking like Bear Grylls. Then one day ask celebrities to join you. Like Hikes with Kevin Nealon. Or the guy that tests hot sauces. You deserve it, you're top notch.
Oh and the fly tipping around here is pretty bad, so I assume it is like it everywhere. The fields where I sometimes walk my dogs someone had emptied the contents of what looked like a caravan only a month or so ago and on another walk I was on as I got near Windsor Hill Quarry there was a whole bathroom suite piled up in the hedge, well actually someone had laid it out like a bathroom in the hedge as if it was a funny thing to do!? I think people use the excuse they just don't want to pay the councils commercial rates for disposal (if you turn up kn a van they charge you I believe) as they already pay enough tax in their mind so they just palm it off on someone else, usually the farmer or land owner where it gets dumped :-(
You'd think, but some folks would run a marathon shackled rather than pay money. To be honest a lot more has come out of recent regarding fly tipping and it would seem there are cowboy refuse disposal companies at work. Make sure you always get legit disposal certificates from anyone who deals with disposal for you. So make sure a builder who gets rid of your old kitchen or a house clearance company provides it fir your records too. Apparently people who have not and who innocently engage these services, are the ones who end up with the clearance bill and the fine to boot, not the disposer. Your rubbish, your responsibilty is the council's line and I have to say I totally agree!
Small world. I live not far from Windsor Hill Quarry and I remember that very bathroom suite! Mendip District Council are a disgrace and should not be charging more to dispose of a bag of building waste than it cost to buy the original bag of aggregate. There are much dirtier places than Mendip though. I worked in the West Midlands for a few months several years ago. Most of the dual carriageways are bordered by a continuous line of car tyres, old mattresses, abandoned shopping trolleys, traffic cones and every other type of junk. I once walked out from a footpath which ended at a road crossing and there was a box of needles and other detritus from some druggies den just tipped out at the edge of the road!
Ahhh a fellow Sheptonian! That bathroom suite was years ago when we had not long got our Lurcher from Happy Landings (she's an older girl now). At first I thought it was there incase Nancy Camel went for a wander and got caught out! 😂 Yes it is shocking indeed the cost of disposal in our area but I guess they must increase these costs to cover the rogue tippers. I know they have a massive problem with it in Frome and a particular pair of scally wags posing as 'professional clearance'. The authorities know who they are but unless they catch them in the act they can't do anything. 🤷♀️ 😐 So the only altetnative is to weigh the responsibility onto people who engage these 'cheaper' services without throughly checking their provider out first.
Thanks again Abbie, I’m 72 & have a 12 1/2 year old dog & together we are doing a lot more walking in the area I live in New Zealand. And I’m taking more notice of the things I see as though I’m talking to a camera. Of course being a young country there is very little history to relate but I’m loving it & so is Bobby.
Another memory lane walk for me Abbie! I grew up in West Pennard and Glastonbury. Used to play in the river with the Weir and the Dippers! I still go back to Glastonbury regularly to see my parents and on every visit climb the Tor as a rite of passage. Thank you for sharing. Stay Wild!
Abbie your vids are so Inspiring. You need a TV show. Thanks abbie , I'm going to get my boots on.
That would be fun :) But I wouldnt get to hang out with you guys on here so much, so you win some and lose some :)
Better than Julia Bradbury
Really really really enjoyed every millisecond of that walk. These video's are fantastic, Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching!!
This came up in my suggested videos to watch (I'm fascinated by the legends of Glastonbury and watch some of those videos) and it was a refreshing experience!
The majority of my heritage comes from Great Britain so I enjoy learning about where my ancestors may have lived or visited. Thanks so much!
Such a nice girl.
Wonderful viewing and great company.
Happy Days for you.
God Bless.
Love that you get excited about sparkling water and the light and just the beautiful things in this world. Like the little history moments you share too. Thanks :)
Thank you Abbie for your upbeat and informative video!
What an adventure you had around Glastonbury Abbie. I am glad you did not end up in the water and thanks so much for showing us around the abbey.
Me too! Thanks!
What a lovely walk, beautiful narration and your constant smiling face! Your philosophy on life fits perfectly with my own. A joy to accompany you. Many thanks. 😊🙏
I stumbled across your channel and was well rewarded by this post.
You have a freshness that is endearing and an honesty that shines through.
Please continue making these REAL walking videos. You are a diamond in a midden of ***t ...
Thank you for letting me join you, lovely walk perfect 👍🏽
Glastonbury is my most favorite place on earth. I cant wait for tv2e opportunity to walk that landscape again.
Me too!!
It's good to find a new route, could almost feel that wind on top of the Tor, thanks Abbie.
Haha, yeah, was wild!
Wow.. So beautiful views 👍😍😊 Enjoy so much! 😀😀😍😍😍
Nice to see you walking around my home town.
Brought back memories of being a kid and walking around the Tor and fields. Sadly these days my health is not up to it.
Thanks for sharing you really enjoyable walk. 😎👍
Ordnance Survey maps are fantastic. They show a huge amount of detail without being cluttered and it is possible to plan a walk just using the information on the paper
I’ve been to England six times and traveled a good bit, but my mom’s family came to the US from Draycott long ago and I’ve never been ! It’s nice to walk with you where I will probably never go in person. Thanks !
That a Golden Light in the Winter is gorgeous and below 10 degrees is perfect for walking. In the summer to get that light you need to be up at 0500hrs!! I love winter walking. The Levels are curious and have little bits of magic hidden within but it is all too easy to drive on past. Great video.
So true! Thanks for watching!
I remember visiting Glastonbury in 1974. There were " No hippies " signs on shop doors. We knocked on a caravan door and asked if we could spend the night. We could.
Bright and cloudless day with clear views.
Thanks again, Abbie! Watched this while chugging away on my elliptical, as we wait for Hurricane Isaias which is moving toward us, here on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
Thanks Abbie for a great walk, shame some of the paths are blocked off, and a great insight to the abbey.
Brilliant video Abbie, your passion just shines through and makes your videos such a joy to watch. So inspiring :)
Thank you :)
Greetings from SE Asia. It is so nice to see the home of my ancestry. I would love to walk many paths there. For now I will just spend some moments with you. Beautiful smile. Beautiful present moment.
Big Thanks for sharing your Walk....!
This is a joy to watch. I think I did the same route in 1998. Bought Michael Ondadge's The English Patient in Glastonbury, my all time favourite book! Thanks!
The perfect day for it. Thank you for sharing, Abbie.
Always enjoy watching your videos.
Thanks for watching!
Abbie's walks are a million times more engaging than any of those presented by Julia Bradbury.
Your enthusiasm is infectious. I love Glastonbury and this walk was a different side to the area that I know :)
3c, my kind of temperature Abbie! Escaping the heat of Oz for the milder temperature of the mother country in 2019!!! Cant wait :)
What a brilliant, interesting and informative video. Thanks for taking us along. I think I would have started to panic had I realised that I was on the wrong side of the drain with no bridge or other means to cross in sight.
Haha, easy to panic!
Wonderful walk again Abbie! Much THANKS! Really enjoyed the mind blowing views from atop the Tor! Incredible place!
Thanks for watching!
Great to see you doing some of the lesser known walks around Glastonbury, Abbie, well done!
A great day out Abbie, I just love the levels you can walk for miles and miles.. Some of those bridges looked like they were deliberately left overgrown so not to cross . Got to love those landowners... Not ! Atb Dave.....
I agree with all of that!! Cheers Dave!
Looks amazing looking forward to going there one day :)
I live in Wells just along the road from where you were. I also work out on the levels but in the opposite direction from your walk so it was a pleasure to see familiar places from anothers point of view. I have lived here since 2014 and count my self so lucky to live in such beautiful English countryside.
I am so glad I am not the only one who gets slightly disorinentated on the levels! I always end up studying my map every 2 seconds and re-routing by the second half of my walk. However like what happened to you I always end up being rewarded with an animal encounter of some kind that takes my breath away as the levels are so rich snd busy with wildlife. If you hang around until dusk the mummerations are just out of this world at this time of year. Shapwick and Ham wool get so busy with visitors wanting to see them roost so we usually go at dawn to see them take off and when hardly anyone is around, but seeing them gather in groups on the levels first is equally as exciting.
I love this part of the world. Thanks for sharing your adventure and if you want to explore one of my local trails with me just shout xx
Yes the starlings are amazing! But you are right, it gets so busy!! Thanks for watching!
wonderful walk abbie thank you so much all the very best from trev x
Thanks for sharing Abbie. Enjoyed it.
Hey Abbie another triumphant vid and I see what you mean about the light, extraordinary! I have visited Glastonbury and the surrounding area many times over the years and must say that this post brilliantly captures the feeling of the place. I would thoroughly recommend the Levels to any, less abled, walker as it has all that the countryside has to offer, without the gradients! and the town itself has a great vibe, a must for any old hippie like me. Thanks for the memory Abbie, looking forward to your next journey!
Thanks Eric!
As usual, a great video of your wanderings. It’s a good thing you managed to get out of the fields 😉
I’ve meant to comment before that I love that your intro and out takes , are of the relevant trip in and out, plus a map of the local area, which is great. Not just a standard themed intro. This must add to your editing, but it’s always appreciated.
I can't go every day now without watching Abbie. I'm addicted to your videos Abbie. Is this your job? or do you have a job elsewhere?
Amazing! place 😍😊
This was in my recommendations section so I thought I’d watch it. You just walked past my house in Glastonbury 😂
Great video! I love the Glastobury area and brings back many fond memories of the are thank you for uploading!
We was there last year, amazing place, and the town seemed so chilled, thanks again Abbie great video 🙏🏼
You did well to find a way round. The view from tor is amazing. I went to the Abbey few years ago and there was a group of people sat meditating lol.
Haha, thats cool!
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you. I don't know what was more impressive...Abbie or Somerset?
😂😂
Love this! You've made such an interesting video from a country walk. The BBC or someone will be snapping you up soon for sure. Great work. You've got a very engaging style, keep it up.
Top quality full of enthusiasm as alwats X
Cheers Steve!
Time for me to go for a walk today, right now! :)
Woohoo!
Really good video. Inspires me to make more. Thanks.
fantastic as always 👞🎒👞
Another fantastic vid Abbie. Do you ever worry about losing a footpath/bridleway when you go through a farm or farmers field? Do the owners ever ask you why your on the land. I would worry about trespassing on their ground back accident. Keep up the good work, your inspiring..
Not really. If I am on a designated public right of way then I have every right to be there. I have only once been challenged and that was on the Two Moors Way, as you'll see in the video when it comes out. To be fair, I did go wrong, but literally by 10metres!!!
Loved it, thanks for sharing
At a couple of points in the video i wondered if you'd been drinking! (just kidding of course) ...thoroughly enjoyable watch as always...the fun season is upon us, nothing better than a hike in snow, hope you'll do some of those this winter..have a good christmas Abbie
Just a happy me :) I don't drink anyway as I get so high on life..!! Thanks for watching! Have a good one yourself!
13:44 Haha, that's what I call perfectly normal. One can never have enough goofiness :)
The wind at St Michaels Tower looks mad , perhaps take a kite next time and get an aerial view with the camera lol . Always fun to watch , keep it up =-)
Great idea!
34:15 An ancient Fidget Spinner!
Is tor a way to shorten Tower? A legend about Jesus tells us - Mary watched HIM, as a child, bullied for being illegitimate. She sent HIM with her Uncle, Joseph of Arimethea. When taken to Britain, HE studied with Druids.
Upon their departure, Jesus blessed Britain, making way for an Empire. The Rose of Glastonbury
👍
stay wild!!
Stand on the top of Masbury, still less than a thousand feet above sea level and Glastonbury Tor looks really small down below you.
I have only ever been to Glastonbury Tor when I have visitors, although there have been a few of those. I live not far away and there were always people on the top even in the depths of the lockdown.
Whenever I walk that way there is always something new to see and someone different to talk to. I once talked to a lady near West Pennard about her chickens. The two cocks ruled the roost over the whole flock, quite literally. One was called Lenin and the other Stalin. They had no respect for history because one day Lenin did for Stalin! So when I passed there was only one cock.
That was not really a very wild walk, but I bet you met some pretty wild people in the hippy shops in Glastonbury High Street.
How far is the route on this walk Abbie?
Thanks for sharing this one, Abbie. I've been up and down the Tor a number of times but I don't think I've once explored the museum or some of the other nearby sights. I often think of the area as only being suitable for a 'short walk' but I think you've done well with your route, even when faced with obstructions.
Do you often encounter footpath problems in Somerset? Do you report them as and when you do?
Good question. Yes. Mostly signing to be honest. And Devon can be the same. And Dorset. Except on the AONB's and National Parks. But I don't report them. Perhaps I should....... They'd have endless messages from me!!!
@@AbbieBarnesWILD I find that Somerset, in particular, has many 'blackspots' surrounding the AONBs. I've reported a number of issues to Somerset County Council over the years but very rarely see an improvement made and mostly receive an automated response: 'the issue has been resolved'. Few councils, sadly, have the funding to maintain the upkeep and repair to our rights of way network. Someone from Cornwall County Council told me they won't act upon a non-SWCP route unless it poses a serious threat to health.
By contrast, I've often had good results - and seen resolutions reached quickly - with both North Somerset Council and Bath and North East Somerset. But even they're now experiencing cutbacks.
I like to think we have a duty and responsibility to report things, as there's no guarantee that the next person to come along or the one who passed previously, will do it. Some landowners (if only in the minority) clearly don't respect our right for roam. /Rant over. :-)
I think you are spot on. When on the C2C this summer I went over a style and it broke. My knee is still swollen and painful now! So yes, do not want anyone else to have that!! Thanks for highlighting the issue :)
Would you ever invite people on your hikes to ask them questions have discussions?
I run group walks around the country throughout the year (see my website for info - although they are not yet online). I do sometimes feature people in videos but I am always cautious of shoving a camera into peoples walks - most like to be outside to get away from tech and people!!
I was thinking like Bear Grylls. Then one day ask celebrities to join you. Like Hikes with Kevin Nealon. Or the guy that tests hot sauces. You deserve it, you're top notch.
Is it wet there/hard to walk in?
Ot all depends on the weather, it is a very low area so if its been wet it holds the water. Good boots are a must anyway.
Oh and the fly tipping around here is pretty bad, so I assume it is like it everywhere. The fields where I sometimes walk my dogs someone had emptied the contents of what looked like a caravan only a month or so ago and on another walk I was on as I got near Windsor Hill Quarry there was a whole bathroom suite piled up in the hedge, well actually someone had laid it out like a bathroom in the hedge as if it was a funny thing to do!? I think people use the excuse they just don't want to pay the councils commercial rates for disposal (if you turn up kn a van they charge you I believe) as they already pay enough tax in their mind so they just palm it off on someone else, usually the farmer or land owner where it gets dumped :-(
Thats gutting to hear. Our dump costs stupid money and perhaps theirs does too, but it is totally not ever acceptable to fly tip!!!
You'd think, but some folks would run a marathon shackled rather than pay money.
To be honest a lot more has come out of recent regarding fly tipping and it would seem there are cowboy refuse disposal companies at work. Make sure you always get legit disposal certificates from anyone who deals with disposal for you. So make sure a builder who gets rid of your old kitchen or a house clearance company provides it fir your records too.
Apparently people who have not and who innocently engage these services, are the ones who end up with the clearance bill and the fine to boot, not the disposer. Your rubbish, your responsibilty is the council's line and I have to say I totally agree!
Small world. I live not far from Windsor Hill Quarry and I remember that very bathroom suite!
Mendip District Council are a disgrace and should not be charging more to dispose of a bag of building waste than it cost to buy the original bag of aggregate.
There are much dirtier places than Mendip though. I worked in the West Midlands for a few months several years ago. Most of the dual carriageways are bordered by a continuous line of car tyres, old mattresses, abandoned shopping trolleys, traffic cones and every other type of junk. I once walked out from a footpath which ended at a road crossing and there was a box of needles and other detritus from some druggies den just tipped out at the edge of the road!
Ahhh a fellow Sheptonian!
That bathroom suite was years ago when we had not long got our Lurcher from Happy Landings (she's an older girl now). At first I thought it was there incase Nancy Camel went for a wander and got caught out! 😂
Yes it is shocking indeed the cost of disposal in our area but I guess they must increase these costs to cover the rogue tippers.
I know they have a massive problem with it in Frome and a particular pair of scally wags posing as 'professional clearance'. The authorities know who they are but unless they catch them in the act they can't do anything. 🤷♀️ 😐 So the only altetnative is to weigh the responsibility onto people who engage these 'cheaper' services without throughly checking their provider out first.